“Anticipate the danger in advance”
(Reflection Paper)
We are now undergoing the new normal scheme or way of handling our lives due to the
pandemic that affect the whole globe nowadays. We are not in the same set up as we used to before.
We are now trying our best to cope up and adapt in order to continue on living and sustain our
family’s lives and needs. Now, this webinar is primarily for the preparedness and mobility when
dealing with any kind of disasters be it natural or man-made type of disasters. What really instilled in
my mind is what Ms. Cruz said that this pandemic has reached the point where it can be considered
as a disaster already. Because this pandemic had affected the whole wide world due to its
catastrophic way of infecting an individual and worst, a group of persons in just a single and snap of
a finger. However, this pandemic is not the only one that we need to take caution with because there
are lots of a natural or man-made disaster that we need to be aware of just like typhoons, earthquake,
tsunami, and many more. In this case, we not need to be so assured that we are on a safe place and
nothing will happen to us because where we live at never experienced any tremendous disaster like
others. This is a wrong mindset that we should avoid because what if there is one moment that time
tested you and unfortunately you are not prepared for it, so what will happen to you and your
family, right? We must take precautions every single time because we can also benefit from doing it.
There is nothing to lose if we take immediate actions even before a disaster ever come instead, we can
even save and sustain the lives of our fellow countrymen be it your family, neighbor, stranger, and
many more. It is the best feeling one can ever feel to see someone you care for, in a good condition
and shape without any pain in any parts of their body. Anticipate the worst-case scenario that may
happen and be prepared for it as early as now!
Natural disasters are a part of life, and emergency situations happen more often than most
people think. How successfully a community recovers after a tragedy is largely determined by how
well it was prepared in advance. Preemptive resource planning and emergency response can be the
difference between a community's ability to regroup and recover and its capacity to perish. A
complete assessment and description of emergency events and health care personnel in response to
certain key characters' health difficulties will be undertaken in order to better understand the
preparation for crises. With this webinar o online lecture, there’s so many things to learned about one
of which is the disaster management continuum wherein as discussed by Ma’am Cruz, it is the
continuous process of dealing and handling a disaster. I also want to answer her question with
regards to “in what phase of disaster management are we as of the moment?” to be honest, back in
the last quarter of 2020, we’re already in the rehabilitation phase up until in the beginning of the year
2021 which I can say that in any moment there we can enter the reconstruction stage already however
due to the government’s lack of initiative to take into the next step which is the alertness in reserving
trusted vaccines, we have lost the opportunity and chance to take our country into the next phase.
And now as we can see, we are back in the “disaster” phase. Not to mention how the people are so
naïve when it comes to this kind of things. They think that COVID-19 is just a hoax that media are just
overreacting with it. so, it resulted to a carefree citizen not mindful of how deadly this virus is. I am
not making the scenario worst because it really is.
Moreover, I have realized upon hearing the explanation and lecture about Emergency
Response that it is one of our vital and essential survival hacks in times of disasters and catastrophe. I
have also comprehended that the process of establishing an efficient emergency management is
mostly dependent on the leaders of groups or communities that have been entrusted with organizing
procedures and concepts linked to the administration of society in catastrophes. State leaders,
community directors, and directors of special emergency management organizations are all included.
The economic and social aspects of the community play a large role in the management coordinators'
obligations as leaders in the disaster management process.
Routine drills at home will provide a sense of security and develop each family member's role
responsibilities. After the immediate family has been accounted for, a strategy should be put in place
to check on nearby homes to determine if anybody else need aid. If the situation becomes too
hazardous, the local authorities must be alerted immediately.
Emergencies and disasters may strike at any moment and without warning. The key to
ensuring public safety and preventing unintended deaths is prevention and catastrophe
preparedness. A well-developed strategy must be in place; being cool and avoiding fear will ensure a
well-organized emergency plan implementation.
